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DDHarriman · 07-21-2008, 02:59 PM

Me too!!! (Wish I could see the future…)
Sorry I could not resist to that.

Formats, well, you have at least one: PDF/A (Standard ISO-19005-1).

It’s designed exactly to guarantee that any file compliant with it is self sufficient and can be read in any hardware and software platform existing 30, 100, you name it years from now.

More info in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A
or
http://www.pdf-tools.com/public/down...paper-pdfa.pdf

Problem: none of today’s readers let us read these files totally without a problem.

Once this is resolved… this can be a sustained solution, as PDF/A is a “Electronic document file format for long term preservation”.

07-21-2008, 02:59 PM	#22
DDHarriman Guru Posts: 860 Karma: 4380 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Almada, Portugal Device: Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS 505, Kindle DXG and Samsung Galaxy Note	Me too!!! (Wish I could see the future…) Sorry I could not resist to that. Formats, well, you have at least one: PDF/A (Standard ISO-19005-1). It’s designed exactly to guarantee that any file compliant with it is self sufficient and can be read in any hardware and software platform existing 30, 100, you name it years from now. More info in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A or http://www.pdf-tools.com/public/down...paper-pdfa.pdf Problem: none of today’s readers let us read these files totally without a problem. Once this is resolved… this can be a sustained solution, as PDF/A is a “Electronic document file format for long term preservation”.